LAS VEGAS — St. Mary’s women finished second to Gonzaga last season, and the WCC head coaches are predicting history to repeat itself in 2018-19.

As part of its media day at the Orleans Arena on Wednesday, the conference revealed its coaches’ poll and its 10-woman preseason All-WCC team.

The Zags got seven of nine possible first-place votes (coaches could not vote for their own team). Paul Thomas’ Gaels, coming off their ninth consecutive WNIT appearance, received two first-place votes. BYU, which was picked to finish third, earned the other first-place vote.

Santa Clara was picked to finish sixth, with USF eighth.

The Bay Area schools’ lone representatives on the All-WCC team were both from St. Mary’s: senior forward Megan McKay, who led the WCC in field-goal percentage last season at 60.8, and senior forward Sydney Raggio, who averaged 14 points and nine rebounds per game last season.

WCC women’s basketball coaches’ poll

First-place votes in parentheses

Team

Points

1. Gonzaga (7)

79

2. St. Mary’s (2)

73

3. BYU (1)

66

4. LMU

52

5. San Diego

49

6. Santa Clara

35

7. Pacific

32

8. USF

31

9. Pepperdine

24

10. Portland

9

Women’s preseason All-WCC team

Brenna Chase, BYU, Jr. G

Gabby Green, LMU, Sr. G

Sara Hamson, BYU, Soph. C

Megan McKay, St. Mary’s, Sr. F

Myah Pace, San Diego, Soph. G

Sydney Raggio, St. Mary’s, Sr. F

Zykera Rice, Gonzaga, Sr. F

Yasmine Robinson-Bacote, Pepperdine, Sr. F

Chandler Smith, Gonzaga, Sr. G

Laura Stockton, Gonzaga, Sr. G

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Loyola Marymount senior guard Gabby Green, who played two seasons at Cal, made the All-WCC team.

Steve Kroner’s main coverage beats for The San Francisco Chronicle’s Sporting Green are WCC basketball, the Giants and the A’s. He occasionally covers the NFL and college football, the NBA and golf. Steve, who joined The Chronicle in November 1998, also works as a copy editor. Before working at The Chronicle, he spent 16 years as a sports producer/reporter for KPIX TV. Born in San Francisco and raised in Millbrae, Steve went to Capuchino High and then to Cal, from which he graduated in 1981 with degrees in journalism and political science.